Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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[80 years ago today] "• Free French pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappears while making a reconnaissance flight in an F-5B Lightning over southern France. 

 

Saint-Exupéry’s F-5B on return from a previous mission.

 

- The famous novelist and poet (author of “The Little Prince” and “Flight to Arras”) had flown Bloch MB-174 and Potez-637 reconnaissance aircraft in 1939-40, and then traveled to the United States after the fall of France to advocate for American intervention. He joined the Free French after Pearl Harbor. The wreckage and a bracelet of Saint-Exupéry will be recovered in 1998 but the reason for the crash cannot be determined."